This Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ 1804 portrait of Napoleon shows him as a civilian officer instead of an invading hero. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège, France “Ah, if it were only to be done over ...

As only French biographers can do, every conceivable motive and alternative scenario is presented at every stage in the astonishing rise of the subject from the petty and parvenu and rather ...

Andrew Roberts' big, meticulously researched and very readable Napoleon: A Life is aimed at the general reader, but will appeal particularly to those who already know the essentials of his story.

Probably only Abraham Lincoln surpasses Napoleon in sheer page count. The Roosevelts and the Churchills are right up there if you count books about their families. What makes Oxford professor Michael ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." French General Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the world’s greatest military leaders who became the first ...